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First American Offers to Buy All or Part of CoreLogic

Santa Ana-based First American Financial Corp. has offered to buy back all or part of neighboring data services and analytics company CoreLogic Inc., the title insurance company said on Thursday. The two companies were created last year out of the split of First American Corp., in one of Orange County’s largest-ever spinoffs. The split was an attempt to separate and better promote CoreLogic’s growing technology-focused business from First American’s dominant title insurance line of business. First American Financial still owns about an 11% stake in CoreLogic and is its largest shareholder, according to regulatory filings. CoreLogic counts a market value [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:26-07:00October 21st, 2011|Main category|0 Comments

William Raveis on the Shift in Real Estate Technology

Industry Leader Spotlight William Raveis on the “Shift in Real Estate Technology” I had the pleasure of sitting down with Bill Raveis a couple of weeks ago to get his perspective on where he sees technology moving in our industry and what his company is doing to address this vision. I first met Bill Raveis years ago when I was working with Interealty, the leading MLS vendor of that time. At our first meeting, Bill and a number of his fellow industry leaders were trying to create a more logical multiple listing service in Fairfield County in Connecticut, an area [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:26-07:00October 20th, 2011|Main category|0 Comments

It’s time for Gutsy Leadership – Marilyn Wilson’s observations of the CMLS conference

The CMLS Conference in Tucson was absolutely the BEST EVER in my view! First, there were over 550 attendees – the largest in conference history. The conference continues to grow in popularity year after year due to the relevant and timely content delivered coupled with well-organized and FUN events. This year was no different. The CMLS Board led by Merri Jo Cowen and the fabulous hosts at the Tucson Association of REALTORS® led by Phil Tedesco and Wes Wiggins, formerly of Tucson created a very memorable event. Jim Harrison, CEO of MLSListings was also elected as the latest board member [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:26-07:00October 13th, 2011|Main category|0 Comments

CMLS News: Clareity Safe Syndication and RED reDataVault

Today, October 4th, 2011 two vendors announce separate but complementary solutions leading up to the Council of MLS conference: CMLS. Both companies issued press releases of software that effectively works together to handle data syndication. Safe Syndication is a new product launch and reDataVault is a 2.0 release. Both reDataVault and Safe syndication have similar goals in mind – they both seek to support MLSs in managing data outside the walls of the MLS. reDataVault actually distributes data, Safe Syndication does not.. reDataVault goes a bit further by automating the process of managing RETS/IDX/VOW/DataLicense agreements. Safe Syndication has a document repository, but is not a transaction [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:26-07:00October 4th, 2011|Main category, MLS Insights|0 Comments

News from Property Panorama and Trulia

Property Panorama as appointed real estate industry veteran Mike Barnet as its new CEO, and Trulia releases information about the source of inaccurate data on their website today. Property Panorama was not specific in outlining the reasons for changing their leadership, but a new captain is at the helm. Barnet joined the company as the CIO about a year ago, and has been working to lead the charge to take the popular virtual tour solution to a higher level. Property Panorama was a unique offering in the industry when it launched its MLS Data Powered automated virtual tour creation program. Today solutions [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:26-07:00October 4th, 2011|Broker Technology Research, Main category, Marketing|1 Comment

WAV Group Week in Review October 2 2011

Arizona Association of REALTORS® refocuses its attention on ARBI – Arizona REALTOR® Business Interface which puts MLS, Document Management and a bunch of resources all on one page. The AZMLS Statewide MLS has found new life. No acquisition of ARMLS for now, but MLS partners are aligning to get it done. Perhaps ARMLS will simply move from first to “maybe a little later on.” WAV Group released a new whitepaper in an ongoing series about the Shift in Real Estate for brokers and agents. In the first paper released in June, we looked at the shift happening in enterprise broker [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00October 1st, 2011|Main category|0 Comments

Keys to Technology Adoption in 2011 – New White Paper
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Keys to Technology Adoption in 2011 – New White Paper

Keys to Technology Adoption in 2011 Anybody that understands our industry knows the average broker and agent hate to change the way they do things. The idea of change creates questions and insecurity. We all get comfortable with our old familiar ways. The idea of having to learn something new, like a new technology, is not very attractive. “If it ain’t broke why fix it”, as the saying goes. But what if it is broke? Or, what if there are just really much better ways to do things or technologies that really do improve our business? How do we get [...]

By THE WAV GROUP|2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00September 28th, 2011|Main category|2 Comments

How many consumers visit agent and broker websites?

I had an email question come in from with Kevin McQueen of Focus Forward Consulting this morning. Kevin asked “If Move, Zillow, Trulia, Yahoo, and Homes a couple of others each pick-up about 5% of the unique visitors to RE sites, who makes up the other 80%?” The presumptive answer might be Agent, Broker and MLS websites, right? Unfortunately, presumptions lead to bad decisions and strategies in business today. In this case, the presumptive answer is very far from the truth. WAV Group WIN Reports uses Experian Hitwise to measure web traffic to real estate websites – all real estate [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00September 28th, 2011|Broker Technology Research, Main category, MLS Insights, Strategic Planning, Suveys and Research|0 Comments

Shift in Real Estate Technology Webinar Slides and Recording

Missed our webinar? Slides are now available. WAV Group recently hosted a webinar on the topic of the “Shift in Real Estate Technology” . Hosted by Victor Lund co-founder of the WAV Group, three panelists, Mike Audet, co-founder of the WAV Group, Harper Thorpe, VP of broker services for CoreLogic and Alan Scearce, COO and Executive Vice President of Prudential California Realty shared their thoughts on the changes we are seeing in real estate technology and the implications it has for both vendors and real estate professionals. […]

By THE WAV GROUP|2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00September 27th, 2011|Main category|0 Comments

WAV Group Presenting at CMLS Conference in Tucson

WAV Group is proud to be a part of this year’s CMLS conference held on October 5th-7th in Tucson, Arizona. Partners, Marilyn Wilson and Victor Lund will be presenting on the important topics facing the Real Estate industry. WAV Group is renowned for its ability to deliver unbiased and objective research and insights and has been credited with providing advisory services that have helped countless organizations re-invent themselves to create growth by delivering relevant products and exemplary customer service to their customers. Marilyn Wilson will be participating in two panels “The Crystal Ball of Governance” and “What consumers think does [...]

By Marilyn Wilson|2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00September 23rd, 2011|Main category, Press Releases|0 Comments

WAV Group Webinar Today for brokers

WAV Group partner, Mike Audet published a widely acclaimed paper this year called the Shift in Real Estate Technology. The paper outlines the needs of large real estate brokers spanning multiple MLSs who are developing a single source solution that puts the brokerage back office solution in the center of the agents’ life. Like this year’s earlier WAV Group report on broker back office solutions, the task of aligning all of the company offices and agents using integrated solutions is no simple task. WAV Group partner Victor Lund will be moderating a free online webinar in which WAV Group partner Mike Audet [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:27-07:00September 22nd, 2011|Broker Technology Research, Main category|1 Comment

Technology service providers should think spanish

When WAV Group was learning about Immobel’s multi-language IDX search strategy earlier this year, Janet Choynowski taught us a valuable lesson. Supporting multiple languages is less about making information legible and more about demonstrating your respect for a person’s culture and heritage. It had a profound impact on us. With this notion couched in our minds, we took note when My Florida Regional MLS announced the launch of CoreLogic Data Co-op to their members, and offered two training classes in Spanish. (http://www.mfrmls.com/member-benefits/mlxchange-benefits/data-co-op). WAV Group suspects that there are a number of MLSs across the country who have significant populations of [...]

By Victor Lund|2018-05-03T21:25:28-07:00September 20th, 2011|Main category, Marketing, MLS Insights, Strategic Planning|0 Comments